In response to a gunwank (Ow, that sounds like it'd be painful and probably lethal) thread on LJ:

I see. So they're made to fire bullets to kill things, but the bullets don't kill things. The idea that a bullet is lethal is nothing but a conspiracy invented by elves in nuclear reactors peeling potatoes with backup plans?

For those not initiated into the joke: this is from an AH.com troll named ElevenEleven who claimed that nuclear reactors worked from Jews peeling potatoes in nuclear reactors, with meltdowns being a backup plan in case the reactors failed. It's about the same level of idiocy, that's for sure. I replaced "Jew" with "Elf" to make it funnier.

As for my view of the kind of sense that the whole argument in discussion makes, well:

(For non-sighted, this is Godzilla and Gamera dancing with a hat and cane):